Rachel Stuhlmann Gets Back To Her Tennis Roots After Pickleball Pivot, Fans Crush Kentucky & Hildeeee IS BACK!
I'm seeing some Dayton fans complaining about the 10:45 MT tip-off Saturday morning in Salt Lake City…but I think this is perfect for my Flyers
What a victory for Dayton on Thursday. The experts – Charles and Kenny – are saying Nevada choked away that game, but I have to give credit to Dayton for not giving up when it was down like 17 with eight minutes to play or whatever the lead was.
Now comes Arizona and CBS is out with the start times that include Dayton and Arizona getting Saturday started at 12:45 ET, which is 10:45 in Salt Lake City.
Advantage: Dayton.
Do you think Arizona's legs will be under them playing a game at breakfast time for their internal clocks? This is a post-lunch tip for MY Flyers just like they're back home at UD Arena on a Saturday afternoon.
The hope is Arizona comes out flat early on a Saturday morning, the Flyers get a 4-5 point lead like Oakland did last night on Kentucky and then makes it a coin-flip with under five minutes to play.
And how about Oakland getting that prime time slot at 7:10 on TBS like they're the Atlanta Braves back in 1991? We get Gohlke vs. that behemoth power forward from NC State. That's great television.
Speaking of Oakland vs. Kentucky, Jay Wright had a great point for the Kentucky fans who are making threats against Coach Cal: Fans love all the top talent coming to schools, but then they play against grown men who've been around college for four to five years – Jack Gohlke is 24 – and life isn't so easy for Kentucky freshmen.
In other words, Kenny here needs to adjust his expectations in the tournament.
Now, give me another 18-hour day of college basketball. Give me Yale against Bruce Pearl and Vermont against the Duke faker Filipowski or however you spell his name.
And tonight I just might have a beer or two while watching the games. Let's get crazy.
• John from SD says:
Great to see the Dayton comeback win. Great to see Kentucky lose again.
Didn’t watch as many games as usual being on the west coast and at a company that didn’t put it on tv in our break room. Miss the days in my 20’s of going to "lunch" at BW3 at noon with coworkers on Thursday and barely making it back to work in the afternoon. (Great to be professional though!, do hard things)
Transfer portal and NIL is making it harder to follow NCAAB. Too many players on their 3rd team, it’s getting chaotic!
Youth sports and specialization
• Owen B. says:
Joe - been a while - happy March Madness.
Jeff’s note on soccer was an interesting take on youth sports, toughness, etc - never thought about it like that but his points are appreciated. I’ve always stressed multiple sports to my kids and their friends. No one is going professional, so learn to be good in multiple sports. Specialization and the travel ball craze has killed that concept.
Daily reading starts at Screencaps - thanks for all you do for the community.
How's the food in Waco, TX these days?
• Dawgs fan Sam L., who has been all over the place the last few months, including Romania, writes:
Chuck Norris has his own museum.
Chicken Fried Steak at George's (Waco institution)
Brisket at Guess Family BBQ (in top 50 bbq places Texas Monthly)
What's your position?
Let's say you have three acres of flat property to make this one fair because I understand there are variables that attract people to each style of mower.
Email: joekinsey@gmail.com
Ripcurl opens a European TNML operation
• Ripcurl writes:
Well, the day has finally arrived for us.
We landed in Paris on April 28th of last year. Since then, we have stayed in 8 Airbnb’s, 10 hotels, 2 caves and one Castle in 10 different departments(sub-regions of France). Last week, we moved into the property we bought near the city of Amboise. Along the way, we met many amazing people, drank a ton of wine, and ate some incredible food. There were a couple of injuries and some funny ass, and sometimes frustrating, adventures. But throughout the entire time I have been dreaming of this day. Today marks my first mow here in France. The TNML has officially been exported to the Loire Valley.
I thought I would have to wait another week to get started. I think the mowing Gods were smiling upon me. The Greenworks (not a paid endorsement, but open to discussing one) mower arrived from amazon.fr a day early. Wanted to hear the roar of a gas mower, however 7 euros a gallon for fuel made me become an environmentalist suddenly.
It is a perfect 70 degrees with sunny skies today.
We bought an old winery with four caves. Two were used for wine making and pressing the grapes and the others for storage and workshops. It has been neglected for years. There is a main house, a gite/guest house and a large outbuilding/garage with a mix of weeds, vines and grass surrounding them. I have my work cut out for me. Let’s see what we can do with the place.
Today is opening day! The TNML European division season has now begun.
Tonight, we celebrate.
Kinsey:
And just like that, Ripcurl might have the most intriguing TNML property to keep tabs on this summer. I need updates. I need to see where he goes with the property, especially when it's this old. A modern, American-style lawn doesn't seem like the play here, but he's the new owner, let's see what the play is here.
Keep the updates coming, Rip!
TNML Augusta
• Wes G., who might meet Canoe Kirk and I for golf in a couple of weeks, reports in:
First mow of the year in Augusta, GA.
I am covered with pollen.
Kinsey:
I'm about to take a Zyrtec to prepare myself for Augusta.
Indy Daryl has been traveling
• Indy D. writes:
Just finished up the annual pilgrimage from Indy to Ormond beach, FL for spring break (in a PB time of 14 hours 20, stops included!) with the fam. A couple of questions came to mind:
1. What is the minimum distance a trip needs to be to invoke the term "road trip?" For me, I think it has to be at least a one-way trip of over 100 miles before I use that term. You?
2. As a younger man I was really all about getting from one place to another as fast as possible (once did Indy to Denver in 15 hours flat!). But now that I am a bit older, and cars have the running MPG stat, I tend to try and maximize gas mileage. Not only for the savings (minimal I know) but also just for the fun of it. And over the course of 900+ miles it kind of presents a challenge. What do other folks prioritize? Speed? MPG? (Obviously safety….well some of us anyway)
Have a great Friday and enjoy the games!!
Kinsey:
1. I'm pretty liberal when defining "road trip." I say it's any trip that will include lunch and taking a leak. Let's say we're going to Cedar Point. That's like 60 miles. It's 100% going to include lunch, multiple leaks for the entire team and possibly one of the kids falling asleep on the way home.
To me, that's a road trip.
2. On my recent 1,050-mile weekend road trip (Fri-Sun) to Philadelphia, I typically kept the Toyota rig at 75-77 across the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The speed limit is 70. The speed kept me with traffic and not behind semis. How much earlier would we have arrived in Philly running at 80?
According to the AI bots, it takes 6:49:05 to go 525 miles at 77 mph. At 80, it will take 6:33:45. I'm perfectly happy with my 77 mph speed and low 30s for fuel mileage.
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That's all for this Friday in March. Get your work done. Get comfortable for another day of basketball. We've earned days like this. Have a great day and if I don't see you tomorrow morning for Saturday Screencaps, have a great weekend.
Email: joekinsey@gmail.com